VERNON — Cost projections from new filings by NorthStar Group Services Inc., the proposed buyer of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon:
• $811.5 million: Total costs at Vermont Yankee from 2019 to 2052
• $511.1 million: Nuclear Regulatory Commission license termination costs
• $287.8 million: Spent nuclear fuel management
• $12.6 million: Site restoration
• $17 million: Amount expected to remain in trust accounts after cleanup
BRATTLEBORO-Albert Mikuski, now 88 years old, recalls an extraordinary story of how he and his...
-The state's housing crisis will be a top priority in the upcoming legislative session, and...
BRATTLEBORO-At a standing-room-only meeting at Academy School on Dec. 12, Representative Town Meeting (RTM) members...
PUTNEY-Ars longa, vita brevis. One translation of the Latin phrase is that craft takes a...
BRATTLEBORO-With the launch of an online fundraising campaign and two main events - a Smash Party this Saturday and a Co-creation Celebration on Saturday, April 20 - an initiative to create a mosaic mural on the vacant wall of a downtown park is becoming a reality. The Pliny Park Mosaic Project began as the brainchild of Greg Lesch, the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, and Jamie Mohr, the executive director of Epsilon Spires, a not-for-profit organization...
During the past weeks and months, “free speech” has continued to be a topic in the national conversation - most recently, locally, around panhandling. The issue of hate speech has also been a local issue, thanks to an incident this past summer, in which threatening words toward Jewish people were graffitied on a sidewalk in town. Defending free speech via inaction or ignoring hate speech under the guise of defending free speech misses the point. Research shows the United States...
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to slowly lose your mind? That's exactly what the innovative new play opening this week in West Chesterfield, N.H., is trying to dramatize. Actors Theatre Playhouse presents Florian Zeller's The Father in its regional premiere for eight performances only on Fridays and Saturdays from Sept. 21 through Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. An internationally acclaimed and theatrically thrilling work, The Father is a moving portrayal of Andre, an elderly man suffering...
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